Deputies find meth lab north of Atkinson Friday

Henry County Sheriff’s deputies who went to a rural Atkinson home looking for a wanted person found much more — evidence of a meth lab at the home.

Deputies went to the home Friday morning and didn’t find the wanted person, Mitchell Miller, 19, of Kewanee. But Shelby Garrigan, 40, of the Atkinson address was arrested on a Henry County warrant for driving with a suspended license.

And Dalton Menold, 18, of Geneseo, was arrested on a juvenile warrant, and a Henry County warrant for no valid driver’s license.

While the arrests were being made, a car drove past the residence with Miller inside. A deputy made a traffic stop and arrested Miller on an Illinois Department of Corrections warrant, no bond, and for failure to appear in court on a theft charge, a $2,000 bond.

The driver of the car, Tyler Demuynck, 23, of Bradford, was issued a notice to appear in court for driving with a revoked license.

A deputy suspected there was an active meth lab in the home. A search warrant was issued at 1 p.m., and that led to charges being added to several of those already arrested.

Garrigan and Menold each had a charge of meth manufacturing added. There is no bond on that charge.

Nola Speairs, 58, of the same address was charged with meth manufacturing, and obstruction of justice.

Cami Menold, 21, of the same address; Brent Davis, 21, of Buda; and David Lally, 18, of Princeton were each charged with meth manufacturing.